RESEARCH & MEDIA

Discover papers, articles, videos and opinion pieces that relate to the proposed Offshore Wind Project on the Central Coast.

If you are relatively unfamiliar with the basic issues surrounding this project, we suggest starting your exploration by reading the items in the General Information section. As you become more familiar with the issues and impacts, you may want to dive further into the information on the Environmental Impacts and Economic Impacts sections.

General Information

“But wind turbines do not actually operate at 100% efficiency. They operate at 35% to 45% efficiency. However due to the intermittency and variation of the wind the actual output is much worse. The effect of the enhanced fluctuations is dramatic. The capacity factor, the ratio of actual delivered power for offshore wind is 20-40%.”

Offshore Wind is our government's "magic bullet" for industrial energy generation, but in their rush to find an answer for our burgeoning energy needs they have sadly ignored the significant negative impacts associated with the industry.

Environmental Impact

“Industrial activity and development of ports can result in significant environmental burdens for communities living near the ports, including air, water, noise and light pollution (EPA, 2021). This not only affects residents but also workers and visitors who might recreate near port areas.”

CCC 2022

Offshore Wind projects, from pre-construction surveying through to facility operation, are fraught with a plethora of destructive environmental issues and have the potential to kill and harm countless marine species, and migrating and soaring marine birds.

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E - Population consequences of seismic surveys on fishes An interdisciplinary

E - 2022-04-underwater-power-cables-lobsters-bad

E - A review of seismic surveys on marine mammals

E - An overview of fish bioacoustics

E - Coastal Upwelling _ Affect of Offshore Wind Development

E - Collision and Displacement of marine birds with OSW

E - Effects of seismic studies on cod and haddock

E - Habitat Characterization of MB lease area

E - Letter from Lindy to California State Lands Commission[1]

E - Massive Bird Kill at Wind Farms

E - noaa Synthesis of Science

E - Ocean Wind 1 Sonic site survey

E - Office of Public Affairs _ ESI Energy LLC, Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Nextera Energy Resources LLC

E - OSW farms project to impact primary production page

E - Potential environmental impacts from OSW

E - Power Plant Cooling and Associated Impacts

E - Projected cross-shore changes in upwelling from OSW

E - Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) used in OSW transmission

E - Synthesis of Environmental Effects Research (SEER)

E - Widely used marine seismic survey air gun operations negatively impact zooplankton - PubMed

E - Wind energy company pleads guilty to killing 150 eagles _ Trending _ fox23.com

E - Wind-wake changes from offshore wind farms, Akhtar, et al (2022)

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E - Collision and displacement of marine birds

E - Collision vulnerability of Calif. marine birds

E - Offshore windmills and the effects of electromagneticfields on fish

E - OSW impacts - upwellings

E - OSW impacts - vertical movement

E - Risk-formulation-for-the-sonic-effects-of-offshore-wind_2010_Marine-Pollutio

E - Vulnerability of marine birds to OSW

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E - Albacore in MB WEA

E - Decrease of wind velocity 100 km downwind of WF

E - Pockmarks in OSW lease area

E - Whale deaths on East Coast

E - Correlation of whale deaths to increase of Survey Vessels

E - Correlation of whale deaths with surveys

Economic Impact

“Wind power receives billions in taxpayer support, yet we see project after project failing.”

Daniel Turner - Power the Future

Offshore Wind has proven to be inefficient in output, expensive to operate and has needed subsidization to continue long-term energy production all over the world. The cost of onshore infrastructure, in and of itself, renders the project absurdly costly, and the industrialization of our ports will damage our current local economies irreparably.